Nowadays, there are still many people have this habit, but they don’t understand the content of joss paper since there are not many instruction manuals or explanations of joss paper provided in order to educate people about this culture when people buy joss paper from funeral offerings store. People are generally taught by the personnel of the stores and they are not able to clarify the functions and meaning of each joss paper to customers. This hearsay leads to disappearance of some concepts and it is difficult for people to find related literatures which recorded all the types of joss papers and described the meaning of them.

The book is comprised of 9 traditional festivals in order to centralize the content that readers will be able to understand more about the relationship between each festival and the joss paper through the texts and the pictures provided from the content in favor of reducing the disappearance of the concept through the hearsay.